[REPORT] Intervention with Elderly Chinese Clients of Sex Workers 中国老年嫖客干预

by Li Man

李曼

 

China’s population is aging, and the pressures of dealing
with an aging population are becoming apparent. Today, according to a new
report from the Work Committee on the Elderly, 134 million Chinese were over
the age of 60, representing around 11% of the population. The report finds that
of those between the ages of 66 and 71, 90% of men continued to have an
interest in sex, versus 50% of women. In the range of 86-90 year olds, 51% of
men had an interest in sex.

中国已开始进入老年化,老龄化对中国社会的压力正逐步显现。目前,中国60岁以上的老年人口为1.34亿,占总人口的11%左右,这是中国老龄工作委员会根据一项最新调得出的结果。资料表明在66–71岁的年龄段内,对性有兴趣的男性为90%、女性为50%,就是在86–90岁的年龄层中对性有兴趣的男性也有51%。

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[REPORT] Impressions of the China Sex Workers’ Network Training in Qingdao

中国性工作者网络青岛培训有感

By Zhang Lan and Li Man

From January 14-16,
2010, the Chinese Sex Workers’ Network held its second national training
workshop for sex work NGOs in Qingdao. The purpose was to help build the
capacity of staff at sex work NGOs, as well as targeted training for staff on
project management, institution building, project expansion, and so on.

2010年1月14日—16日,中国性工作者网络在青岛举行了全国性工作者机构的第二次培训,这是对机构工作人员的能力建设,同时也有针对性的培训工作人员一些关于项目管理/机构建设/拓展项目/法律问题等等。

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[UPDATE] What We’re Up To

January 2010

 

Happy New Year!

Here’s the latest from our new Brooklyn office. Please help spread the word – we’re looking for graduate and undergraduate interns for spring and summer 2010. Details all the way down.

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[RESOURCE] News and Information on Sex Work Online

Check out the new website launched by Paulo Longo Research Institute in honor of the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers (yes, there really is a day for everything), www.plri.org. The site looks like a good resource for news and information on sex work, harm reduction and human rights issues. A recent wander through the site turned up these things:

 

  • A report from Pakistan’s National AIDS Control Program last spring on how human rights abuses by the police are fuelling the spread of AIDS;
  • A report from Cambodia on how the response to trafficking led to a crackdown on sex workers with a lot of negative fallout;
  • Articles on trafficking and migration from various perspectives;
  • Articles on research methods and ethics that aim to move “toward innovative, interdisciplinary and participatory frameworks that reflect sex worker priorities and perspectives”.

 

The site was just launched yesterday, so there aren’t a huge number of entries yet; hopefully these will be filled out as the site develops. It would also be great if links below the abstracts led you right to the article – some just link to the host website. Put this together with AIDSLEX, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network’s new site on AIDS law, and finding resources on AIDS and human rights online just got a little bit easier.